Car-replacer.



W. H. WARD.

GAR BEPLAGBR.

A PPLIQATI0N FILED MAR.19, 191a.

1,068,953. Patented July 29, 1913.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS COLUMBIQ PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. Q

WILLIAM HENRY WARD, OF CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND.

GAR-REPLACER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Application filed. March 19, 1913. Serial No. 755,466.

To all "Lu/20m it may concern: I

Be it known that I, XVILLIAM H. l/VARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cumberland, in the county of Allegany and State of Maryland, have invented a new. and Improved Car-Replacer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

7 My invention has for its design to provide a car replacer comprising separateblocks or guides for the wheels, adapted to be L cated alongside the rails, and in which provision is made for causing the wheels to be inevitably guided to the rails when running upon the slopes or inclines of the replacer.

It is a further design of my invention to provide the replacer with means to positively prevent the wheels from running or sliding transversely.

It is also a design of my invention to improve in various particulars devices of the general character indicated, to the end that efliciency in operation may be promoted, as well as economy of manufacture and simplicity of adjustment and control.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing a replacer embodying my invention in position on a track; Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section; Fig. 5 is a detail, horizontal section on the line 55 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a detail, vertical crosssection on the line 66 of Fig. 4.

In constructing a car replacer in'accordance with the illustrated embodiment of my invention, a pair of blocks or guides 10, 10 is provided, adapted to be placed respectively at the inside of a rail and the outside of a rail, as indicated in Fig. 1. The ends of each block or guide may have spurs 11 to enter the ties A. Each block presents upwardly sloping top surfaces 12, which preferably are curved (shown best 1n Fig. 4), on which the car wheels may ascend. At the inner side, at the bottom, each block is preferably recessed, as at 13, to overlie the adjacent flange 14 of the track rail, with the inner surface 15 lying close to the side of the rail heads 16. At the center each block is provided with a vertically-swinging top member 17 hinged in the present example by a bolt 18 which passes through said top member and through lugs 19 on the block,

'so'thatthe top member may be swung to a position with its outer end overlying the rail, in which position the said member is received in a depression 20 formed in the top of the block, or swung to an outer position'indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 at the left. The top members are provided respec tively at the outer ends with depending lugs 23, 23 to the under side of which are pivotod clamping dogs 24, which are toothed as at 24, to bind against the side of the web 25 of the rail, and thus clamp the block firmly to the rail. The dogs 24 may be pivoted by any suitable means, as by screws 26, studs or the like.

When the members 17 are swung to the outer position the top tread surfaces 21 thereof lie flush with the sloping surface 12, and preferably all three surfaces are in the form of an arch. Thus, a wheel ascending either sloping surface 12 will pass onto the surface 21, and the latter is given a lateral slope downwardly toward the rail. The surface 21 of one block is continued to the outer end of the swinging member, so that it extends across the line of the adjacent rail head 16, to permit the car wheel to slip downwardly and inwardly. The block 10 adjacent to the opposite rail is, however, provided with a rib 27 at the top in vertical line with the adjacent rail head 16, the inner side of the said rib presenting a shoulder 28 at the lower end of the sloping surface 21, the said shoulder serving to arrest the flange of the car wheel and locate the latter directly in line with the rail. Thus, one wheel is permitted to slip freely on the sloping surface 21 of one block while the opposite wheel is permitted to slide only to the shoulder 28. Each block is formed with a guard flange 22 which curves laterally so as to direct the car wheel sidewise and at the same time to prevent the possibility of the car running or sliding laterally in a direction away from the track rail. Similarly, each swinging top member 27 is provided with a guard flange or shoulder 22, which, when the replacer is in position, will form a continuation of the flanges 22. Preferably, the swinging member of each block has ribs 29 on the under side for strength.

In practice, one block 10 is positioned at the inside of one rail and its companion positioned at the outside of the opposite rail,

and the swinging sections are brought down upon the rail, after which the dogs 24 are turned to bind against the webs of the rails. It will thus be seen that the replacer is quickly positioned and firmly secured. The car wheels, when the car has moved forward, it is evident, will ascend the adjacent slopes 12 of the respective blocks and move laterally in the direction of the rails, by reason of the guard flanges 22. The shoulder 28 on the guard 10 will, in arresting one wheel, locate both the wheels directly in line with the track rails, and thus positively cause the wheels to take the rail. hen the car wheels have passed over the replacer the dogs 24 may be turned and the top sections 17 swung upwardly and away from the rails. The blocks may be then taken up or temporarily left in position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A car replacer comprising a pair of wheel guides, each guide presenting a slope for the ascent of a car wheel, and a top member to overlie a rail, the top members presenting each a lateral, downward slope, the slope of one member continuing across the rail line, and there being a wheel stop in the rail line at the bottom of the slope of the other top member to arrest a wheel in line with the adjacent rail.

2. A car replacer comprising a base having a slope for the ascent of a car wheel, and a swinging top member on the base at the upper end of said slope, the top member present-ing a tread surface inclining laterally and downwardly.

3. A car replacer comprising a base having a slope for the ascent of a car wheel, and a swinging top member on the base at the upper end of said slope, the top member presenting a tread surface inclining laterally and downwardly, there being a stop shoulder at the bottom of the said slope of the top member.

4. A car replacer comprising a base having a slope for the ascent of a car wheel, and a vertically swinging top member on the base at the upper end of said slope, said top member having clamping means at its free end to engage a rail and presenting a top tread surface inclining laterally and downwardly in the direction of the said free downwardly in the direction of the said.

free end, there being a rib on the said top member between the slope and the clamping means.

6. A car replacer comprising a base having a sloping tread surface for the ascent of a car wheel, a guard flange extending laterally toward the top of theslope, and a ver-, tically swinging top member having a tread surface lying flush with the slope of the base when the top member is in one position, said top member carrying at its outer end clamping means to engage a rail, and having a flange to register with the flange of the base.

7. A car replacer comprising a base presenting at opposite ends thereof sloping surfaces for the ascent of a car wheel, there being a depression in the base between said slopes, and a vertically swinging member receivable in said depression and presenting a tread surface to register with the slopes of the base, the said slopes and tread surface being curved, and the curves having a common center. V

8. In a car replacer, a block having a sloping surface for the ascent of a car wheel, a swinging member on the base at the top of the said slope, adapted to be swung to posi tion with its top surface in line with the slope, to overlie a rail, the outer end of the said swinging member having a depending lug, and a pivoted dog carried by said lug and adapted to engage the web of a rail.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLARA LAUGHLIN, E. R. JonNs'roN.

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